Rejected petition Urge Tanzanian government to begin COVID-19 testing and participate in COVAX.

The Tanzanian governments inaction undermines the fight against COVID, potentially acting, as a source of new variants, which could spread across Africa and beyond. This petition calls upon the Government to take the lead in raising this matter with International Partners and donors to Tanzania.

More details

Tanzania has not published COVID-19 stats since May 2020 when it logged 509 positive cases. The Tanzanian authorities have refused to participate in COVAX advocating herbal remedies and prayer. There has been a marked increase in deaths classified as respiratory illness overwhelming hospitals. The situation poses a threat to the world as Tanzania is providing the virus with a sanctuary to spread and mutate.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Decisions relating to testing for, and vaccinations against, Covid-19 in other countries are a matter for their individual governments, not the UK Government or Parliament.

You may like to sign this petition which calls for a related action:

'Begin distributing 50% of UK vaccine supplies to poorer countries immediately': https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/576325

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 6 March 2021
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.